Football Almanac is pleased to present the most comprehensive selection of football honors and foootball awards found on the Internet. Each football award lists all of the recipients, a brief history of the football award, other interesting facts, and – in some cases – detailed voting results for the football award.
Football Award Notes: Bold faced awards are active / currently being awarded to players today. Those which are not bold faced have been discontinued, a description of what happened is on the award's page, and the years it existed are listed immediately below the award title.
"The things you do individually are great, but the reason you play this game is to win the Championship." - Pittsburgh Steelers Running Back Jerome Bettis
Did you know that Leon Hart of the 1951 Detroit Tigers won the Associated Press All-Pro Offensive End of the Year AND the United Press International All-Pro Defensive End of the Year the same year?
The NFL began awarding the Joe F. Carr Trophy (Carr was league president from 1921-39) to the league's most valuable player in 1938, and continued to do so until 1946. Since that time, the NFL's Most Valuable Players and Players of the Year have been named by a variety of sources including some of the top football publications - read about each and every one of them here on Football Almanac.
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